Books to Build a Cult Like Elon (Mustafa, @oprydai)

Books recommended by Mustafa (@oprydai) on X, including his October 2, 2026 list of books “that’ll teach you building a cult like elon”.

Every book on this list

33 books; ✓ marks the ones Kyle has read.

• A Mind at Play — Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
• Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) — Walter Isaacson
• Factory Physics — Wallace J. Hopp, Mark L. Spearman
• High Output Management — Andrew S. Grove
• How Chinese Learn Mathematics — Fan Lianghuo, Jinfa Cai, Ngai-Ying Wong and Shiqi Li (editors)
• Imagined Communities — Benedict Anderson
• Mathematical Thinking — For People Who Hate Math — Albert Rutherford
• My Years with General Motors — Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
• NASA Systems Engineering Handbook — National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Nikola Tesla: Guided Weapons and Computer Technology — Nikola Tesla, edited by Leland I. Anderson
• Polymath (Peter Hollins) — Peter Hollins
• Positioning (Al Ries) — Al Ries, Jack Trout
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding — Al Ries and Laura Ries
• The Box — Marc Levinson
• The Cold Start Problem — Andrew Chen
• The da Vinci Curse — Leonardo Lospennato
• The Goal — Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces — Joseph Campbell
• The Infinite Game — Simon Sinek
• The Machine That Changed the World — James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos
• The Network State — Balaji Srinivasan
• The Perfectionists — Simon Winchester
• The Polymath (Peter Burke) — Peter Burke
• The Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers
• The Prize — The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power — Daniel Yergin
• The Sovereign Individual — James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
• The Starfish and the Spider — Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
• The Storytelling Animal — Jonathan Gottschall
• The Toyota Way — Jeffrey K. Liker
• The True Believer — Eric Hoffer
• This Is Marketing — Seth Godin
• Titan — Ron Chernow
• Toyota Production System — Taiichi Ohno

Connections

• Book Lists — Master